If you're feeling hungry...

So instead of writing a research paper - I decided to bake. :)

Definitely a good decision.

Banana Bread

(gluten-free, nut-free)

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs equivalent flaxseed sub. (or just 2 eggs, if you can have them)
• 1/2 c. melted refined coconut oil
• 1/4 c. water
• 1/4 c. agave syrup**
• 5 mashed bananas
• 3 teaspoons baking powder (I didn't have baking powder - I used a substitute: 3/4 tsp. baking soda mixed with some coconut milk and 3/4 c. agave syrup)
• 1 c. potato starch flour
• 1 1/2 c. amaranth flour (you could easily use rice flour, which is what the recipe actually called for)

** You can use honey or sugar.

Mix all of the ingredients together. Place in a greased pan and bake for about 50 min. at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Enjoy!

Difficulties/Lessons learned:

• This is a really hard recipe for dorm life. What I figured out is that it is possible to cook it in a rice cooker, but you have to leave the rice cooker on for hours and it makes it very dense and leaves the bread kind of goopy.
• The trick is to bake in thin layers, either in a toaster oven or in an electric skillet that has measures heat in degrees as opposed to settings. The skillet would make the batter more like eating a muffin-like pancake, but I think that it would work okay.

Overall: a success! Namely because I found a flour combination that works for my diet, and the taste was just like banana bread even if the actual baking process was difficult. The taste was the important part in my opinion, because you can always experiment with ways to make the baking process work better.

enjoy!